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An army of internet trolls is going to war for former President Donald Trump with the latest artificial intelligence tools, reported The New York Times on Wednesday — and many of their top targets are women and minorities.

"Cheered on by Mr. Trump, the group traffics freely in misinformation, artificial intelligence and digital forgeries known as deepfakes. Its memes are riddled with racist stereotypes, demeaning tropes about L.G.B.T.Q. people and broad scatological humor," reported Ken Bensinger.

Prosecutors in Michigan will present their case Wednesday against 15 state Republicans charged for acting as false electors for former President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, WXYZ reported.

The charges against the accused false electors were announced by Attorney General Dana Nessel's office back in July, and all pleaded not guilty except one, James Renner, who had all criminal charges against him dropped in October thanks to a cooperation deal.

Former President Donald Trump is claiming that because he was still president in late 2020 and early 2021, he enjoys "immunity" from prosecution in special counsel Jack Smith's election interference case. That "immunity," Trump claims, renders the case invalid.

Smith considers Trump's immunity-from-prosecution argument in the case ludicrous, and U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has agreed. In a December 1 ruling, Chutkan stressed that the office of the presidency "does not confer a lifelong get-out-of-jail-free pass."

In an interview with Substacker Aaron Rupar released on Wednesday, political scientist Brian Klaas pulled back the curtain on how former President Donald Trump's latest rhetoric is poisoning American politics — and how the press is barely even paying attention to it anymore.

"In 2017, whenever Trump tweeted anything I got media requests from CNN, MSNBC, the BBC," said Klaas. "I was going on TV all of the time to talk about every single tweet. Some of them were pretty banal and genuinely not that big of a deal. They were just unusual, because he wasn’t the standard politician. Now he’s saying, 'We’re going to purge the vermin,' and he’s talking about going after his political opponents, and the phone doesn’t ring."

Donald Trump is considering a plan that would allow North Korea to keep its nuclear weapons while relieving some of its economic sanctions, according to a new report.

The former president, if he's re-elected next year, badly wants to reach an agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and would consider allowing the nation to freeze its nuclear program and stop developing new weapons in exchange for lifting some sanctions and offering other forms of aid, three sources briefed on his thinking told Politico.

During a Tuesday, December 12 conversation with CNN's Anderson Cooper, former President Richard Nixon White House counsel, Watergate whistleblower and CNN contributor John Dean shared his thoughts on special counsel Jack Smith's current "gambit" in his criminal 2020 election interference case against Donald Trump.

CSmith's current push to get Donald Trump's "claim of immunity in the January 6th case on a fast track to the Supreme Court," Cooper said "could be a decision that ranks among the most consequential for the high court." He added, "Perhaps the closest the court came was in 1974 with US v. Nixon which compelled then-President Nixon to turn over those Watergate tapes."

Some critics of former President Donald Trump have argued that if he wins the 2024 election and returns to the White House in 2025, the United States' system of checks and balances will be robust enough to hold back any authoritarian moves he makes. Conservative Republican New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, who has endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for president, insists that Trump is "too dumb to be a threat to democracy."

But veteran conservative columnist Mona Charen has a very different viewpoint.